Danielle DeTiberus lives in Charleston, SC, where she teaches creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in Academy of American Poets, Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, River Styx, Spoon River Poetry Review, Waxwing and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Entropy, Hunger Mountain Review, and The Los Angeles Review. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Best American Poetry anthology, Verse Daily, and The Missouri Review’s special Project Muse collection Ascendant: Seven Promising Poets.

Her manuscript, Better the Girl Know Now, was selected as a finalist for Black Lawrence Press’ 2018 Hudson Prize. In 2016, she received the Carrie McCray Nickens Fellowship in poetry from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Her poem “In a Black Tank Top” was selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2015, and her poem “Turtleneck” is included in the 2016 anthology Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts. In 2012, her poems “I Thought After Thirty” and “Love and Other Hand Grenades” won the Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize and the Jane Moran Prize, respectively, through the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Her poem “Like That” was chosen by Mark Doty as Honorable Mention for the 2009 Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry. 

Among some of her students’ accomplishments are: publication in the Rattle Young Poets Anthology, The Interlochen Review and The Best Teen Writing; First Place (2024), Second Place (2023), and Third Place (2019) in Princeton’s High School Poetry Prize; one winner and two finalists for the National Student Poets Program; and numerous national Gold Medals from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, including the prestigious Gold Medal Portfolio.